During an April 23 press conference in San Francisco, Adobe announced their latest products – Adobe Creative Cloud and the highly-anticipated Creative Suite 6.
Adobe has unveiled a special website from which advance orders may be placed.
Check out this buying guide Web page to compare CS6 packages and components alongside Creative Cloud membership. Adobe also provides cost-effective upgrade options (from US$299 to US$525) to move off of older versions.
Photoshop CS6 features include:
- Content-Aware Patch – Allows greater control by letting users choose the sample area used to create a patch.
- Adobe Mercury Graphics Engine – Takes advantage of the graphics processing unit in modern hardware to speed up imaging and editing tasks, and process large images faster.
- New and Re-engineered Design Tools – Type styles enable consistent formatting; vector layers apply strokes and add gradients to vector objects; custom strokes and dashed lines are easily created; quick layers search and more.
- Intuitive Video Creation – The full range of familiar Photoshop tools and an intuitive set of new video tools to create and enhance any video clip.
- Blur Gallery – A simple new interface with on-image and in-context controls allows users to quickly create photographic blur effects including tilt-shift effects, blur everything with one focal point, or vary the blurriness between multiple focal points.
- The new Photoshop CS6 default interface color is a darker gray than the traditional interface, but you can switch this back if you prefer the old way, or choose an intermediate shade.
Photoshop CS6 Extended includes all Photoshop CS6 features and:
- Mercury Graphics Engine for 3D – Increased power and speed via engine optimized for 3D imaging.
- New 3D Controls – UI improvements for more efficient 3D workflows.
- New 3D Effects – Reflections and “drag-able” shadows to enhance images.
Did you know that: Since its introduction on March 22 the public beta of Photoshop CS6 software for Mac OS and Microsoft Windows has been downloaded by nearly one million people around the world? This is a record event and surpasses all previous beta product releases from Apple.
Adobe Creative Cloud membership provides designers with access to download and install every new Adobe CS6 application announced today and two new HTML5 products, Adobe Muse™ and Adobe Edge preview. ACC membership for individuals is US$49.99 per month based on annual membership and US$74.99 per month based on month-to-month membership and includes access to Photoshop CS6 Extended. Membership in the Creative Cloud enables you to download and install all 14 Adobe Creative Suite.